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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Fraud email example:

From: "grace umah" <graceumah@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:33:31 +0200
Subject: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

From Mrs. Grace Umah
Address 102 Jan Kruger Roodepoort,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
E-mail graceumah@hotmail.com

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL


Sir/Madam


My Name is Mrs. Grace Umah, (Widow) the wife of late Mr. Daniel Umah of
Zimbabwe.
This might be a surprise to you about where I got your contact address. I
got your (CONTACT FROM THE SOUTH AFRICA EXCHENGE NETWORK ONLINE.)
During the war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supporters of our
President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his party
members and his followers, he ordered all farmers to surrender all farms to
his party members and his followers.

My late husband is one of the best farmers in our country and because he did
not support Mugabe’s ideas, Mugabe’s supporters invaded my husband’s farm
and burnt everything in the farm, killing my husband and made away with a
lot of items in my husbands farm.

Before his death, my husband had deposited with the Security and Finance
Company in Johannesburg, South Africa the sum of US$10.5MILLION(TEN MILLION
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) After his funeral, my children and I decided
to move to the Republic of South Africa where he had deposited the money in
the Security and Finance Company as (valuables).

After deliberating with my children on how to move the money for our
investment, I decided to contact overseas firm and companies that could
assist us to move this money out of South Africa because our status as
asylum seekers, we are not allowed to operate any Bank Account within South
Africa.

We have agreed to offer you 20% of the total sum for your assistance, 5%
will be mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred during the course
of the transaction while 75% Will be for me and my family to invest in your
country.

All I want you to do is to furnish me with your entire personal phone and
fax numbers for easy communication. You can always contact me through this
private mail address.

Note that this transaction is 100% Risk free and absolutely confidential.

Thanks and God bless.

BEST REGARDS
Mrs. Grace Umah (for the family)

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